2022-09-24: News Headlines

____ (2022-09-23). Xi extends greetings ahead of farmers' harvest festival. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has extended festive greetings and sincere regards on behalf of the CPC Central Committee to farmers and people working on agricultural and rural fronts ahead of the fifth Chinese farmers' harvest festival.

____ (2022-09-23). Decade-long efforts to safeguard cross-Strait peace and stability, promote China's reunification. ecns.cn The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has effectively safeguarded peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and advanced the process toward the reunification of the motherland over the past decade.

Kevin Gosztola (2022-09-23). White House Says Migrants 'Fleeing Communism'—Plus, Toxic Lead In Chicago Water. thedissenter.org Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola had a limited amount of time for this week's episode. Rania was in New York to cover the UN General Assembly meeting, where a number of Latin American leaders condemned US imperialism. | Rania and Kevin talk a bit about some of the speeches and also respond to Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre saying the migrants being flown by Republican governors to blue cities are "fleeing communism" in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

Staff (2022-09-23). Decorations are awarded for the anniversary of the CDR, with the presence of Díaz-Canel. en.cubadebate.cu With the presence of Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and president of the Republic, the National Directorate of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) celebrates in Havana the act of decorations in salute to the 62nd anniversary of the cederista organization. The ceremony, in the El Laguito Protocol Hall, recognizes the work of outstanding members and groups in the fulfillment of their tasks, with relevant revolutionary trajectory and loyalty to the Homeland.

_____ (2022-09-23). Poverty Is A Public Policy Choice. popularresistance.org It should not have taken a pandemic to realize poverty is a public policy choice. | Public investments in safety net programs continue to be extremely effective poverty reduction tools, as newly released Census income data show. Government social programs kept tens of millions of people out of poverty in 2021. Because of expansions to programs like unemployment insurance benefits and the child tax credit, poverty rates were actually lower in 2021 than they were prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. | The poverty reduction achieved through expanded social insurance programs highlights how much policymakers' choices can…

Elise Gould (2022-09-23). After Expanded Child Tax Credit Slashed Poverty, Letting It Lapse Was Enormous Mistake. commondreams.org All in all, child poverty was the lowest on record in 2021, largely due to key expansions of the Child Tax Credit. Unfortunately, that's where the good news ends.

Sonali Kolhatkar (2022-09-23). Working-class tribune Barbara Ehrenreich exposed inequality and capitalism's positive thinking cult. peoplesworld.org The late Barbara Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 bestseller Nickel and Dimed, which showed that hard-working people simply weren't making it in America. But Ehrenreich, who passed away this September at 81, made an equally great contribution to economic justice with her subsequent book, Bright-Sided. It argued that the cult of "positive thinking" was putting …

WSWS (2022-09-23). Arriva London North bus drivers to strike indefinitely from October as Unite prevents city-wide pay fight. wsws.org The role of the Unite leader Sharon Graham as British capitalism's chief industrial fire fighter is coming into sharp focus.

Olivier De Schutter (2022-09-23). A Welfare System Built to Exclude Will Never Reduce Poverty in the US. commondreams.org To fix its broken welfare system, the U.S. must move away from its fixation on fraud, exclusions by design, and the stigmatization of people in poverty.

Editor (2022-09-22). Caitlin Johnstone: America's Perverse Poverty Draft. scheerpost.com

Shailly Gupta Barnes (2022-09-22). Census Data Proves Anti-Poverty Measures Work. otherwords.org The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported that poverty dropped notably in 2021. Amid a pandemic and widespread economic pain, this is a significant accomplishment. There are three lessons here — about government programs, about how we measure poverty, and about how far we have left to go. First, these numbers show that government programs work. …

Deweylaura (2022-09-22). Stop using migrants as pawns in your racist games! cpusa.org The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) strongly condemns the interstate transfer of migrants seeking asylum. For the past several months, anti-immigration Republican governors have been sending migrants, through deceit and coercion, to northern states and Washington, D.C. They are cruelly using human beings as pawns to score political points. This is being carried out by …

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2022-09-23: News Headlines

____ (2022-09-23). Xi extends greetings ahead of farmers' harvest festival. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has extended festive greetings and sincere regards on behalf of the CPC Central Committee to farmers and people working on agricultural and rural fronts ahead of the fifth Chinese farmers' harvest festival.

____ (2022-09-23). Decade-long efforts to safeguard cross-Strait peace and stability, promote China's reunification. ecns.cn The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has effectively safeguarded peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and advanced the process toward the reunification of the motherland over the past decade.

_____ (2022-09-22). Biden's Afghan Shell Game Prompts Media Shrugs And Stenography. popularresistance.org More than a year after it froze $7 billion of Afghanistan's central bank reserves in the wake of the Taliban's military victory, the US has announced it will use half the money to establish a fund at a Swiss bank to help stabilize the cratering Afghan economy. | President Joe Biden's refusal over the past year to allow the Afghan central bank access to its own reserves has caused an economic crisis that has pushed most of the population into extreme poverty and malnutrition. Moreover, in February, Biden announced that he was reserving half of Afghanistan's money for families of 9/11 victims, sparking internationa…

WSWS (2022-09-22). Top US official visits Sri Lanka to bolster strategic ties. wsws.org Wherever it intervenes, Washington's posturing over "poverty," "human rights," "democracy" and "good governance" is to camouflage its predatory geopolitical interests.

Shailly Gupta Barnes (2022-09-22). Census Data Proves Anti-Poverty Measures Work. otherwords.org The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported that poverty dropped notably in 2021. Amid a pandemic and widespread economic pain, this is a significant accomplishment. There are three lessons here — about government programs, about how we measure poverty, and about how far we have left to go. First, these numbers show that government programs work. …

Editor (2022-09-22). Caitlin Johnstone: America's Perverse Poverty Draft. scheerpost.com

Eric A. Gordon (2022-09-22). The Portuguese Communists' Avante Festival is a party like no other. peoplesworld.org ATALAIA-AMORA-SEIXAL, Portugal—"Nà£o há festa como esta!" proclaim the slogans and t-shirts here. "There's no festival like this one!" It takes herculean effort to put on a show like this, and a slew of Communist Party volunteers from all parts of Portugal do most of the work. Organization Back in 1965, when the Portuguese Communist Party …

Monica Moorehead (2022-09-22). Slap on Sarver's wrist, funds for Favre — capitalist culture in sports. workers.org NBPA Executive Director Tamika Tremaglio calls for lifetime ban on Robert Sarver on NBA Today, Sept. 16. U.S. sports — whether professional or amateur — like almost every institution under capitalism, is all about making profits before meeting human needs. Bosses of professional teams, usually referred to as owners, are . . . |

Karen Dolan (2022-09-21). Data Reveals Poverty Is a Political Choice. commondreams.org New data from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals that there were a whopping 45 million fewer Americans in poverty in 2021 than in 2020.

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2022-09-22: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-09-22). Top US official visits Sri Lanka to bolster strategic ties. wsws.org Wherever it intervenes, Washington's posturing over "poverty," "human rights," "democracy" and "good governance" is to camouflage its predatory geopolitical interests.

Shailly Gupta Barnes (2022-09-22). Census Data Proves Anti-Poverty Measures Work. otherwords.org The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported that poverty dropped notably in 2021. Amid a pandemic and widespread economic pain, this is a significant accomplishment. There are three lessons here — about government programs, about how we measure poverty, and about how far we have left to go. First, these numbers show that government programs work. …

Editor (2022-09-22). Caitlin Johnstone: America's Perverse Poverty Draft. scheerpost.com

Eric A. Gordon (2022-09-22). The Portuguese Communists' Avante Festival is a party like no other. peoplesworld.org ATALAIA-AMORA-SEIXAL, Portugal—"Nà£o há festa como esta!" proclaim the slogans and t-shirts here. "There's no festival like this one!" It takes herculean effort to put on a show like this, and a slew of Communist Party volunteers from all parts of Portugal do most of the work. Organization Back in 1965, when the Portuguese Communist Party …

Monica Moorehead (2022-09-22). Slap on Sarver's wrist, funds for Favre — capitalist culture in sports. workers.org NBPA Executive Director Tamika Tremaglio calls for lifetime ban on Robert Sarver on NBA Today, Sept. 16. U.S. sports — whether professional or amateur — like almost every institution under capitalism, is all about making profits before meeting human needs. Bosses of professional teams, usually referred to as owners, are . . . |

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-21). This Odious Global System. libya360.wordpress.com Paul Cudenec Throughout my adult life I have tended to describe the thing to which I am primarily opposed as "capitalism". Over the last couple of years, however, I have started to wonder whether this is quite the right word. Not only does it hinder communication with people used to different political terminologies, but it…

_____ (2022-09-21). UN Women & Blackrock. popularresistance.org An open letter signed by 700-plus feminist groups and activists sent on Aug. 8 to UN Women, protesting a recently announced partnership between the agency and BlackRock, a United States-based hedge fund, resulted in the cancellation of the arrangement. | The letter pointed out that BlackRock personifies "crisis-prone speculation-based capitalism" and that the May 25 joint press releases announcing the partnership by both parties offered no useful or explicit details on what it would accomplish. | Such vagueness, the letter writers contended, could give UN Women the appearance of "pinkwashing" BlackRock, since the…

Editor (2022-09-21). Busing migrants, targeting socialism. workers.org Playing with human lives in a despicable political stunt, Greg Abbott, right-wing governor of Texas, has bused thousands of undocumented migrants north from the U.S. border with Mexico since the beginning of August. The buses dump homeless, jobless, hungry people — far from their own countries, with few to . . . |

_____ (2022-09-21). United Nations Women And Blackrock. popularresistance.org An open letter signed by 700-plus feminist groups and activists sent on Aug. 8 to UN Women, protesting a recently announced partnership between the agency and BlackRock, a United States-based hedge fund, resulted in the cancellation of the arrangement. | The letter pointed out that BlackRock personifies "crisis-prone speculation-based capitalism" and that the May 25 joint press releases announcing the partnership by both parties offered no useful or explicit details on what it would accomplish. | Such vagueness, the letter writers contended, could give UN Women the appearance of "pinkwashing" BlackRock, since the…

Karen Dolan (2022-09-21). Data Reveals Poverty Is a Political Choice. commondreams.org New data from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals that there were a whopping 45 million fewer Americans in poverty in 2021 than in 2020.

Joe Sims (2022-09-21). CPUSA leader: Democracy itself is on the ballot this November. peoplesworld.org The following is adapted from a report presented by Communist Party USA Co-Chair Joe Sims at the party's National Committee meeting, Sept. 18, 2022. Watch a video of his remarks here. In just a few weeks, voters will decide who controls Congress. Will it be those who outlawed abortion, blocked voting rights, and now want to …

WSWS (2022-09-20). Biden on "60 Minutes": American capitalism is at war with the world, at war with reality. wsws.org In the space of 25 minutes, Biden declared the COVID-19 "pandemic over," threatened a massive escalation of war against Russia and pledged US forces to a possible war with China.

Ahmed Al-Sammak, Aya Emad (2022-09-20). Suicide in Gaza: "A message of anger" electronicintifada.net Poverty, unemployment and hopelessness are some of the reasons why Palestinians in Gaza are dying by suicide.

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2022-09-21: News Headlines

Editor (2022-09-21). Busing migrants, targeting socialism. workers.org Playing with human lives in a despicable political stunt, Greg Abbott, right-wing governor of Texas, has bused thousands of undocumented migrants north from the U.S. border with Mexico since the beginning of August. The buses dump homeless, jobless, hungry people — far from their own countries, with few to . . . |

Anonymous103 (2022-09-20). Military Situation In Southern Ukraine On September 20, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org The AFU are transferring reinforcements to Novohrednevo and Malaya Seidemenukha; | The AFU attempt to build five pontoon crossings south of Bereznegovatoe under constant fire of Russian artillery; | The AFU attempted to attack Russian forces in the area of Davidov Brod, but were repelled; | In the area of Andreevka, the AFU were repelled from the area of Karlo-Marxovskoe and Bezimennoe to Sukhoi Stavok; | The AFU are preparing a landing operation on th…

____ (2022-09-20). China, Russia hold new round of strategic security consultation. ecns.cn Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Monday co-chaired the 17th Round of Strategic Security Consultation between China and Russia with Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, in east China's Fujian Province.

WSWS (2022-09-20). Biden on "60 Minutes": American capitalism is at war with the world, at war with reality. wsws.org In the space of 25 minutes, Biden declared the COVID-19 "pandemic over," threatened a massive escalation of war against Russia and pledged US forces to a possible war with China.

Ahmed Al-Sammak, Aya Emad (2022-09-20). Suicide in Gaza: "A message of anger" electronicintifada.net Poverty, unemployment and hopelessness are some of the reasons why Palestinians in Gaza are dying by suicide.

WSWS (2022-09-20). African countries face double whammy of debt crisis and food crisis. wsws.org The World Bank has warned that the number of Africans living in extreme poverty is set to rise from 424 million before the pandemic in 2019 to 463 million this year, more than one third of the continent's 1.2 billion population.

WSWS (2022-09-20). COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic. wsws.org Mehring Books, the publishing arm of the Socialist Equality Party (US), is proud to announce the publication of Volume 1 of COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic, a compilation of the World Socialist Web Site's coverage of this global crisis. We post today Evan Blake's introduction to the book.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-20). As African Countries Kick off Local Energy Projects, West Rolls Out Climate Agenda-Based Opposition. orinocotribune.com By Olga Borodkina Sep 17, 2022 | While many countries in Africa are experiencing energy poverty, suffering from electricity cuts, and are working on regional energy projects, the West appears to be skeptical of African nations' strive for self-sufficiency in this area. | The Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline (NMGP) project, an initiative of Nigeria and Morocco that was initially proposed in December 2016, officially kicked off with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Nigeria, Morocco, and the Economic Community of West African States on Thursday in Rabat. | "Once completed, the project wil…

TeleSUR (2022-09-20). UN: Bolivia Asks for Peace and Blames Capitalism for Conflicts. telesurenglish.net The President of Bolivia, Luis Arce, advocated for world peace in his speech at the seventieth session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York and accused the transnational corporations of the capitalist system of generating global conflicts. | President of Bolivia, Luis Alberto Arce Catacora delivers his address during the 77th General Debate inside the General Assembly Hall at United Nations Headquarters in New York, New York, USA, 20 September 2022.

WSWS (2022-09-20). A conversation with film historian Max Alvarez about Hollywood blacklist victim, actress Marsha Hunt (1917—2022): "The entertainment industry hierarchy is … more acquiescent than ever" wsws.org Hunt was one of last surviving victims of the Hollywood blacklist of the late 1940s and early 19 s. Never a Communist Party member, she nonetheless became identified with opposition to the vicious witch-hunting in the film industry.

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2022-09-20: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-09-20). Biden on "60 Minutes": American capitalism is at war with the world, at war with reality. wsws.org In the space of 25 minutes, Biden declared the COVID-19 "pandemic over," threatened a massive escalation of war against Russia and pledged US forces to a possible war with China.

____ (2022-09-20). China, Russia hold new round of strategic security consultation. ecns.cn Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Monday co-chaired the 17th Round of Strategic Security Consultation between China and Russia with Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, in east China's Fujian Province.

WSWS (2022-09-20). A conversation with film historian Max Alvarez about Hollywood blacklist victim, actress Marsha Hunt (1917—2022): "The entertainment industry hierarchy is … more acquiescent than ever" wsws.org Hunt was one of last surviving victims of the Hollywood blacklist of the late 1940s and early 19 s. Never a Communist Party member, she nonetheless became identified with opposition to the vicious witch-hunting in the film industry.

Fight Back (2022-09-19). Red Theory: What is neo-colonialism? fightbacknews.org In the previous two articles in this series, we've discussed imperialism, or monopoly capitalism, which Lenin called "the last stage of capitalism." We explained how imperialism and monopoly capitalism are synonymous, the laws of motion inherent in capitalism that lead to imperialism, how imperialism means war, and how imperialism has affected the national question. In our last article, we talked about how and why the contradiction between imperialism and the national liberation movements is the principal contradiction on a world scale. | In 1916, Lenin wrote, "Imperialism, as the highest stage of capitalism in…

WSWS (2022-09-19). Diary of a socialist Amazon worker: "Why is it so hot in the warehouses?" wsws.org The Amazon worker writes, "Why are warehouses so unbearably hot at Amazon and at other warehouses and workplaces across the country and around the world? The answer is capitalism."

Staff (2022-09-18). Un necesario análisis marxista-leninista. cubadebate.cu Mis alumnos corroborarán lo difícil que es llegar a las esencias de la naturaleza, la sociedad, el pensamiento humano y la red de interrelaciones que se suceden entre ellos. Solo el Marxismo-Leninismo, como ciencia, filosofía y teoría, con su método científico fundamental: el "materialismo dialéctico", puede ofrecer certeras respuestas.

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2022-09-19: News Headlines

Fight Back (2022-09-19). Red Theory: What is neo-colonialism? fightbacknews.org In the previous two articles in this series, we've discussed imperialism, or monopoly capitalism, which Lenin called "the last stage of capitalism." We explained how imperialism and monopoly capitalism are synonymous, the laws of motion inherent in capitalism that lead to imperialism, how imperialism means war, and how imperialism has affected the national question. In our last article, we talked about how and why the contradiction between imperialism and the national liberation movements is the principal contradiction on a world scale. | In 1916, Lenin wrote, "Imperialism, as the highest stage of capitalism in…

WSWS (2022-09-19). Diary of a socialist Amazon worker: "Why is it so hot in the warehouses?" wsws.org The Amazon worker writes, "Why are warehouses so unbearably hot at Amazon and at other warehouses and workplaces across the country and around the world? The answer is capitalism."

Staff (2022-09-18). Un necesario análisis marxista-leninista. cubadebate.cu Mis alumnos corroborarán lo difícil que es llegar a las esencias de la naturaleza, la sociedad, el pensamiento humano y la red de interrelaciones que se suceden entre ellos. Solo el Marxismo-Leninismo, como ciencia, filosofía y teoría, con su método científico fundamental: el "materialismo dialéctico", puede ofrecer certeras respuestas.

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2022-09-18: News Headlines

Staff (2022-09-18). Un necesario análisis marxista-leninista. cubadebate.cu Mis alumnos corroborarán lo difícil que es llegar a las esencias de la naturaleza, la sociedad, el pensamiento humano y la red de interrelaciones que se suceden entre ellos. Solo el Marxismo-Leninismo, como ciencia, filosofía y teoría, con su método científico fundamental: el "materialismo dialéctico", puede ofrecer certeras respuestas.

Colin Todhunter (2022-09-17). An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued U.S. Dominance. globalresearch.ca The issue is not food shortage but speculation on food commodities and the manipulation of an inherently flawed global food system that serves the interests of corporate agribusiness traders and suppliers of inputs at the expense of people's needs and genuine food security.

Richard Eskow (2022-09-17). Is Progress Obsolete? The United States Is Now an 'Un-Developing' Country. commondreams.org The rankings include the absence of poverty and hunger, good health and education, gender equality, clean air and water, and reduced inequality.

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2022-09-17: News Headlines

Richard Eskow (2022-09-17). Is Progress Obsolete? The United States Is Now an 'Un-Developing' Country. commondreams.org The rankings include the absence of poverty and hunger, good health and education, gender equality, clean air and water, and reduced inequality.

Erin McCarley (2022-09-17). It's Time to Call it What It Is: A Capitalism-Induced Ecological Crisis. zcomm.org We must make ourselves useful to the movements around us that are already taking the biggest risks and doing the hardest work…

_____ (2022-09-16). Ridiculous Right-Wing Grifters Cash In Posing As 'Patriotic Socialists'. popularresistance.org MAGA 'Communism'? Ben Norton and Danny Haiphong discuss the absurd concepts of MAGA "communism" and "patriotic socialism" in the imperialist US. Pro-Trump opportunists are posing as leftists to recruit the right – and make lots of money.

Phillip Dexter, Roscoe Palm (2022-09-16). Hiding in Plain Sight: The Capture of South African 'Independent' Media by the U.S. State and Big Capital. towardfreedom.org It is time we knew who the masters of South African media really are, write Phillip Dexter and Roscoe Palm of Pan-African Institute for Socialism.

Editor (2022-09-16). Queen's Funeral Shuts Food Banks Amid Cost of Living Crisis. scheerpost.com Elizabeth II's coffin leaves Holyrood Palace. Taras Young, CC BY-SA 4.0 By Ruby Lott-Lavigna / The Queen's funeral will shut down food banks and other cost of living services while the country grapples with its worst poverty crisis in decades. | Critics say millions at risk…

TeleSUR (2022-09-16). UN Decries High Child Labor Rates in Africa Amid Rising Poverty. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the International Labour Organization (ILO) decried the high child labor rates in Africa amid the rising poverty. | RELATED: | ILO Country Director for Tanzania, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda Wellington Chibebe told journalists in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, that Africa accounts for about 92 million out of 160 million child laborers in the world. | "Africa stands out as the region with the highest p…

Erin McCarley (2022-09-16). It's Time to Call It What It Is—A Capitalism-Induced Ecological Crisis. commondreams.org Capitalism as an economic system requires constant growth, constant profit, and endless extraction in order to achieve profit.

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2022-09-16: News Headlines

Carlos L. Garrido (2022-09-15). The Failed Serotonin Theory of Depression: A Marxist Analysis. orinocotribune.com By Carlos L. Garrido Sep 9, 2022 | A recent study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry sent shockwaves across the scientific community and popular outlets as it disproved the predominant "serotonin hypothesis" of depression. In just two weeks since its publication it has been accessed by nearly half a million people and the subject of dozens of subsequent articles. The researchers analyzed a total of seventeen systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and other large studies focused on the following six tenets pertinent to the "serotonin hypothesis" of depression: | "(1) Serotonin and the serotonin metabo…

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2022-09-15: News Headlines

Carlos L. Garrido (2022-09-15). The Failed Serotonin Theory of Depression: A Marxist Analysis. orinocotribune.com By Carlos L. Garrido &#1 ; Sep 9, 2022 | A recent study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry sent shockwaves across the scientific community and popular outlets as it disproved the predominant "serotonin hypothesis" of depression. In just two weeks since its publication it has been accessed by nearly half a million people and the subject of dozens of subsequent articles. The researchers analyzed a total of seventeen systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and other large studies focused on the following six tenets pertinent to the "serotonin hypothesis" of depression: | "(1) Serotonin and the serotonin metabo…

Erin McCarley (2022-09-15). It's Time to Call it What It Is: A Capitalism-Induced Ecological Crisis. dissidentvoice.org One-third of Pakistan is under water. Record heat waves blanket the globe driving up temperatures beyond what humans can survive. Polar glaciers are melting much faster than scientists predicted. Droughts, fires and floods are ravaging the planet, forcing the displacement of tens of millions of people. And this is just the beginning. It's time to …

A Guest Author (2022-09-14). Ukraine: the invasion of capital to take over agriculture. workers.org By Michael Roberts Marxist economist Michael Roberts worked in the City of London (the British Wall Street) as an economist for over 40 years. He published this article on his blog, thenextrecession.wordpress.com, Aug. 13. It details plans of Western imperialism to privatize and take over Ukrainian agriculture, taking advantage of . . . |

WSWS (2022-09-14). War and poverty in Elizabeth Strout's novel, Oh William! wsws.org History, poverty and the difficulty of human relationships are baked into the lives of the characters.

Mario Hernandez (2022-09-13). Democratic power of the people at the heart of Cuban socialism. liberationnews.org Cuba takes the democracy and power of the people more seriously than anything I have ever seen in the United States.

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